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Previously on Continuum:
Edward Kagame,
he is the leader of the cell.
and the most dangerous.
He didn't make it through.
We'll be okay without him.
With our knowledge
of the future
we can operate here
virtually unchallenged.
I like it here.
My suit was damaged.
You led them right back to us.
Run!
- I'm home!
- Keira
We're in the kitchen.
We?
Are 'we' celebrating something?
You're looking at
the new project leader
on SadTech's latest
and greatest.
Promotion.
Congratulations.
Thanks for the beer.
I'll walk you out.
Bye Oscar.
Keira.
Bye Sam.
I missed you all day long,
yes, I did.
Project leader?
Now we can afford
this new place
You still like it?
I love it.
Seriously?
It's not just us.
The whole city is dark.
The terrorists again?
I'm so sick of this.
Don't stress.
The last time they
took out the reactor
it took them four hours
to get it back up.
Baby, relax, Ok?
The power will be
back right away.
It's just street punks
taking advantage
of the black out.
If they get
into the building
They won't have time.
Power will be back in ten
seconds.
Ten seconds?
Trust me.
Just watching you hurts me.
Then don't watch me.
Don't they have makeup
in 2077?
Let's just say the future has
changed some things for the better.
How?
A mascara stick that uses
an electrostatic charge
preset to release the
perfect amount every time.
Describe it to me?
***!
Power's out.
Yup.
Garbage truck backed into a pole
around the corner from you.
Of course it did.
Cameron.
Good morning, Keira.
You busy?
No.
Not really.
Why?
Well, I'm not sure,
but I got something
here that I think
is right up your alley.
Could be the work of your gang.
I'll text you the address.
Thank you.
In all my years as a broker,
I've never seen
anything like this.
Just lucky I guess.
Your timing has been
spectacular.
Well, maybe I'm from the future
and know what's
about to happen.
Yeah, future or not,
You my friend, are now
a very rich man.
Here are the new companies
I want to invest in.
Synthetic food production,
disaster insurance bonds
What are you expecting?
The end of the world?
Something like that.
Lab Assistant found Professor
Ames here at 0810.
Nobody moved the body,
or touched anything.
Single entry to the front,
left of the mid-line.
Clean hole.
Through and through?
Help me turn him over.
Entry wound's the same size
as the exit, 75 millimeters.
Give or take.
Whatever went through him,
went through the damn floor
Let's go.
What the hell penetrates a body
then five stories
of a building?
2077, my time, my city,
my family.
When terrorists killed thousands
of innocents,
they were condemned to die.
They had other plans.
A time travel device sent us
all back 65 years.
I want to get home.
But I can't be sure what I'll
return to if history is changed.
to corrupt
and control the present
in order to win the future.
What they didn't plan on
was me!
CONTINUUM
S01 Ep04 - Matter of Time
So you think the gang
is involved?
Maybe.
There's an unusual
energy signature
from the device that
killed the professor.
If I had my suit
I could have captured a
clearer optical pattern.
Well, you know I can fix whatever's
wonky on your suit.
I do know a little bit
about electronics.
They don't rewire these
things like machines,
they regenerate them
like living tissue.
Mitotic circuitry
it's like electronic stem cells
carbon nanotubes for structure
millions of micro reefs.
All right.
Come on!
At least that's the theory.
Whose theory?
My father's
But so far it's just
a theory.
Have you seen my partner?
There you are.
I invited Ames' grad student down to the
precinct to answer a few questions.
- I'm going to head there now.
- Good idea.
Shane
Thanks for coming in.
So, you're one of how many assistants
were working for Professor Ames?
Well, there were drones,
undergrads
But at my level?
I was it.
So, then you'd know pretty much
everything there is to know
about this contraption that
the Professor was working on.
Everything except
why it backfired.
Backfired?
Something must have gone
wrong with Calisto.
The machine.
Ames named her.
Why don't you tell us
what this thing does?
We were working on anti-matter
containment
You have to break that down
for me
because I don't really
speak science.
Our world is made up
of matter.
There's also anti-matter.
And when you contain
and harness anti-matter,
if if that's even possible.
You would have access to
unlimited clean energy.
Provided if you could figure out
how to sustain it
beyond milliseconds.
Yeah.
We've had ours in,
seven to eight hours.
What?!
Ladies
Can I help you?
Yeah, there's a really creepy guy
in the neighborhood
who is giving us trouble.
Where is this creepy guy?
What's the address here?
It's clear.
I think we'll be right
at home here.
Spearheading a competitive
new technology like this
you're about to make a few enemies.
Yeah, we have threats
all the time.
Threats?
I mean, probably the machine
just backfired.
These threats were they
credible threats?
Did you report them?
We logged them with police.
Especially this one group
"Stop Mad Scientist"
They threatened they'd burn down
the lab.
The leaders' name
is Vincent.
Can you can think
of anybody else?
Well, I know the military
was always offering
to finance the project.
But the Professor wouldn't
accepted.
Although, I think towards the end,
he may have been buckling.
Shane
How easy would it be to rig
Calisto to backfire?
That person would have
to be pretty advanced
in the technology but
yeah, I suppose one could do it.
Is there a way for us to access
the Professor's files on Calisto?
You can't,
but I can.
His files are on a backup
system that I designed
What the
No No!
Problem?
The files the files are gone.
There must be another backup.
No, no.
You don't understand.
This was the backup.
This is the safest form
of storage.
Pretty good design
you got there.
It's just whoever could do that
Shane, are you okay?
Focus, Shane.
Somebody must have hacked in.
Look, I know this may
sound crazy, but,
whoever killed Ames,
could they be after me next?
He's hiding something.
You think?
What's your guess?
Motive?
Too early to tell.
Play along.
You clearly have a theory
and you clearly
want to tell me.
You first.
Fine, you think he murdered Ames
and covered up his crime.
But, based on what evidence?
Based on listening
to my gut.
You should try it some time.
I listen.
No
You watch.
And you calculate.
Which is a good tactic.
But I think you should trust
your instincts once in a while.
So, what made you ask him
if the research was stolen?
Seemed like a good possibility
so I went with it.
Why?
Put yourself in my position.
You get this new partner
who's got her nose buried
in classified intelligence,
I don't know what you know
or how you know it.
Secretive and smart.
Doesn't get any worse
than that.
Well look at you.
Wondered when you were
gonna come around.
Don't try to get up.
Let me call the doctor.
Yes.
That's $10,000 on
the Leafs to win.
Yeah, I know it's a long shot.
You like it?
It's friggin' beautiful
Let's go try it on.
Wait!
You know, my mom and I
are really grateful
for you helping to fix up the house
and paying off the mortgage but
You're like old enough
to be my dad.
It's not like that.
Nothing like that at all.
I told you.
Your father looked out
for me.
He was kind of like
an older brother.
I know how hard you and your
mom have had it since he died.
I'm just paying it forward.
Okay.
Good.
Let's go try on some dresses.
- Just do me one favor, Ok?
- What's that?
When you have a
grandson one day,
and you will, promise me you'll
let him jump on the bed
and eat lots of candy, Ok?
Okay, I promise.
Great.
It's not like I wanted to hire a skywriter
to write "I told you so" over Yaletown,
but yeah I felt a little
vindicated by Ames' accident.
Now maybe people will
finally wake up and see
one more technological
miracle on its way
to being weaponized.
Is that what you think Ames
was doing Mr.
Vincent,
making weapons?
You don't?
I used to be in that
field before I realized
the lie they were
trying to sell us.
Clean energy,
***.
Clean genocide is more
like it.
The first green war.
Thank you.
The only people scarier than the
scientists who invent this stuff
are the people ready to cash in
And who would they be?
Military, weapons
manufacturers,
Contractors, freelancers,
you name it.
It's all about the violence.
But not for you.
I mean, you did threaten
Ames' life
No, I said we'd burn down
his lab.
Sounds like someone saved me
the trouble.
You just told us you were
in the field.
You could have programmed
the machine to backfire.
Look, you don't get it.
We're a peaceful
organization.
We're trying to stop the people
who are using technology
as a weapon.
It's not the science.
It's the user who's
motivations are suspect.
Look, if you two want someone
to pin it on,
check out Melissa Dobek.
Ames' partner in crime.
We weren't told of
any partner.
Well, former partner.
She grew unhappy with
the 'Division of Intellectual Property'
and had a falling out.
If anyone wanted him dead,
it was her.
Did you get that?
Yeah, I got it.
Searching connections.
Melissa Dobek and Martin Ames.
His vitals are stable
but his memory is gone.
He doesn't seem to know
where he is.
Melissa Dobek and
Martin Ames association
goes back to 2007.
Both were professors in the
same University department
Before they left to form
their own company.
So what are you thinking?
I'm thinking there is more to their
relationship than six proprietary patents
including one covering the production
of thermal anti-neutrons
Anti-matter
Did anybody ever tell you,
you watched too much
Star Trek as a kid?
Martin and I pioneered
nano materials
for anti-matter containment
Nuclear residue won't go away,
but antimatter
it wants to disappear.
So containment's everything.
Ok, so you well,
you and Professor Ames
figured out a way
to contain it?
The scale was very small.
I wanted to take it slow.
But Martin had a much
more ambitious agenda.
I thought it was reckless.
So when you left the university
and your company split up,
it looks like Ames held onto all
the patents.
So even in death he got
the better of you.
You want me to dance
on his grave?
I won't do that.
Our differences were
very public.
I thought Martin's work would
eventually kill someone.
I just didn't know it would
be him.
A suspicious person might say
that only a handful of people
are knowledgeable enough
to program this device
to backfire on him
And that you'd be
one of them.
If you're suggesting
that I was involved,
that's completely false.
I don't think anyone
was accusing you.
Actually, I was.
Somebody took critical
research files
from the professor's
laboratory.
I didn't take them.
And the worst I ever did to
Martin was wish him dead.
That's not a crime, is it?
Not yet.
Fonnegra.
Okay.
We have to get back
to the precinct.
Dillon wants to see me.
We'll be in touch Ms.
Dobek.
Inspector, you wanted to see me?
Yes, thank you.
Detective Fonnegra, this is
Lieutenant General Rogers
from the Judge Advocate
General's Office.
Is there something I can do
for the Department of Defense?
You can cease the investigation
into the Martin Ames matter.
And turn whatever you have
over to my office.
We'll take it from here.
With respect sir
I've got leads that could go
cold if I just walk away.
We're not being given
any choice.
I admire your sense
of duty.
But we consider the death
of Professor Ames
and the theft of his work to be
a matter of national security.
You are to hand over
all of your case files
to General Rogers team.
Is that clear?
Yeah, it's clear.
Well, what do you think?
At this price it's a steal.
Very, very nice.
It's very, very nice.
I'll take it.
Why aren't you talking to
me?
You think I had something
to do with this case
being taken away from you.
Your business is secrecy,
right?
Cover-ups
plausible deniability.
You probably even know that
General in there.
Am I right?
I'm not your enemy, Carlos.
And if the government wants to
take charge of this investigation
then I'm sure they have a good reason
That wouldn't bother you?!
Why would it?
Because they took my case,
Keira.
You take that personally?
And you don't.
Look,
maybe we can find
another angle on this.
Find another way to fight
our way back in somehow.
Ames' grad student.
Shane Mathers.
We need to talk to him again.
The general tight-*** closed
that door.
We need to find a new lead.
Mathers told us the military
was interested
to funding Ames' project
but Ames said no.
Maybe there was other interest.
Like your gang?
You think you can buy me time to
get Section six working on this?
I'm sure I can probably work that out
for you.
I mean, it's going to take me
at least tomorow morning
before I can turn all this
over to the military.
Thank you.
Mr.
Mathers
I told you everything
I know.
Did anyone else other
than the military
express interest in
Professor Ames' research?
Not that I know of.
Can I go now?
Please?
Sorry, I gotta go.
Boy, Mr.
Paranoid or what?
Think he's hiding something?
Alec
I was kidding - nevermind.
I need to know who sent
that text.
Approximate time received,
Checking
Melissa Dobek texted
Shane Mathers
while we were
interrogating him.
I'm guessing you didn't
get a court order
for a phone records search?
I didn't have to.
While I was speaking
with him today,
she texted him a second time.
And I saw her name
come up on his phone.
You did?
No, but if you knew
how I really found out
you'd be upset.
Why would the victim's
assistant be getting a text
from a bitter rival on the
morning after the ***?
Guys!!
I had an RSS out for anyone
in red jumpsuits like our gang.
This just started airing
on TV.
Hospital officials are asking
for your help in locating this man,
who wandered away from
St.
Paul's Hospital this afternoon.
The unidentified patient was
found disoriented this morning
That's Edouard Kagame.
The leader of the gang?
Its heart and soul.
He's the one behind all of their
activity.
We need to stop
this broadcast.
It's already been
in rotation
Forty minutes.
Then it's only a matter time
before the killing begins in earnest.
Unless we find him first.
You know it's not look so bad,
lots of space,
a nice TV.
Hydroponics in the basement
Hospital
officials are asking your help
in locating this man who
wandered away
from St.
Paul's hospital
this afternoon.
My god.
Kagame
he made it.
How will we find him?
The rally point.
Kagame set one in case
we became separated.
If I'm right, that's
where he'll head.
He can't just have
disappeared.
I'm monitoring RSS.
Patrol cars are running
a street sweep
spiraling outward
from St Paul's.
Alec!
I've got feeds from
all the CTV cameras,
ATM and security
cameras.
There is no sign of Kagame so far.
Keep looking.
They will.
I've got another piece
of news you may
or may not want to hear.
Problem?
Help yourself.
Kiera actually taking
a note.
I'm impressed.
No.
Melissa Dobek.
How close are we to
Melissa Dobek's office?
Not far, why?
This is bordering on
harassment, Detectives.
I told the military
investigators
that I have no idea what
happened to Martin's work.
Anything else you want to know,
you can ask my lawyer.
Like, for example, why you failed to
disclose your legal challenge
to your ex-partner's patents?
Or should we ask you
about that?
He might not know since
you withdrew them
and had the record sealed as a
condition of your settlement.
Not that it's any
of your business,
but I didn't see the point.
I withdrew that challenge on
advice of my then attorneys.
So you just shrugged
and let it go?
I find that hard to believe.
Believe what you want.
Why did you text Shane Mathers,
yesterday,
just hours after the body
was found?
I expressed my sympathies
my shock
I don't remember
the exact words.
And then again this morning.
Were you synchronizing
your stories?
We're done.
Failing to mention your involvement
with Professor Ames closest assistant
is a pretty serious omission of fact.
Is that what he told you?
No, actualy,
that's what you just told us.
How long have you
been sleeping with him?
Shane and I had a fling.
I'm not proud of it,
but it's over.
I'm engaged.
Ouch.
Awkward.
And Shane does he know
that he's the odd man out?
Did you ask him that?
I thought not.
Goodbye Detectives.
Don't come back
without a warrant.
You say you're free.
You point to your Constitution,
your bill of rights.
What rights?
You were born into crushing debt,
to parents without hope,
and your only right is to
work for the corporation
until you pay it off
Except that can never happen
because everything you need,
they provide
Your shelter, your food,
your water,
and it all sends you deeper
into the abyss of slavery
But all that can change my friends
we have the power
to free ourselves.
Our independence,
our dignity, our very souls
to take back our liberty.
Liberate yourselves
my brothers and sisters,
Liberate
Liberate
Liberate, Liberate,
Liberate, Liberate
You are in violation
of the penal code.
Remain calm.
This is a place of refuge.
No!
We have the right
to be here,
this is a peaceful assembly!
I won't go!
Any word on Kagame?
Still monitoring
.
Everyone's on alert.
Dillon wants to see you.
Patent infringement?
It has only recently
come to my attention
that there may have been a prior
theft of intellectual propeyy
that is unrelated to the
*** of professor Ames.
Unrelated.
I see.
Well then,
if in fact your're totaly unrelated
investigation happens to lead you
to Professor Ames murderer,
I want to be the first to know.
Because I'm going to enjoy
calling that dumb-***
from National
Defense to tell him
that we just solved his case.
I took the liberty of having
the unit pick up matters.
They're en-route.
How long were you involved
with Melissa Dobek?
Is that why I'm here?
Are you accusing me of dating
my former boss?
We know she texted you
within hours of Ames' death.
Al right then, look,
I just, I didn't want
to implicate her for no reason.
What about that text
would have implicated her?
Did you kill Professor Ames?
What?
No!
The device killed him.
Ok, he brought this on himself.
He was pushing a new technology
too aggressively.
I understand.
It wasn't just himself
he was putting at risk.
No.
I came very close to
quitting several times.
It got to the point where I
couldn't sleep
thinking about what we
might be unleashing.
You were creating something
very powerful,
something you didn't
fully understand.
But Melissa did.
Melissa had nothing
to do with this!
To do with what, Shane?
The plot to kill Ames?
She's a good person,
and Martin couldn't hold a
candle to her as a scientist.
But he took all the patents.
He took all the credit.
If you really cared about her
you would've done something.
You would've help her get justice.
No.
It would've been very easy for
you to sabotage Calisto
You knew the experiment,
you helped design it.
Did you know that Melissa
was engaged?
You didn't, did you?
She played you the whole time.
Did you hand the files
over to her?
I don't know what you're
talking about.
I'm talking about charging you
with conspiring to
kill Martin Ames.
I didn't conspire
with anyone!
But you admit
to killing him.
We have all your
communications.
The truth will come out.
You are both going down.
No
I acted alone.
Shane, come on
You don't have to fall on
your light saber for her.
She's behind this.
We both know that.
No.
You're wrong about her.
You want a confession,
you've got one,
but I acted alone.
What did you do with
the research?
I deleted it
so no one could ever use it again.
Why is he protecting her?
I don't know,
I've seen guys do a lot
of crazy things for love.
There has to be a way to get
to her without his testimony.
Keira, we've already
bent the rules to breaking.
We have to let the military take
it from here.
Kiera, I found him.
Phone call, sorry.
- Repeat?
- Kagame.
On a cloud based photo
backup from a tourist.
He's at the Sun Yat Sen
Gardens.
We've got a confirmed sighting
of your Edouard Kagame.
The Buddhist Temple at
the Sun Yat Sen Gardens.
That's five minutes
from here.
Call us backup.
Take the west entrance.
I'll take the east
and we'll meet up in the
temple in the middle.
Carlos.
We've got company,
moving towards your position.
Back-up's on the way.
Let's get to Kagame first.
You're under arrest!
For what?
For what you're going to do.
How do you know what
I'm going to do?
Given your past history
indiscretions,
play God, change history,
I've spent my entire life
making decisions that
could affect millions
That's what I do.
Release him and I'll spare
the child's life.
We both get what we
want before blood shed.
I'm glad to see you, Travis.
I guess we're shooting
our way out after all.
Another time.
Count on it.
Let's move.
It's okay.
Keira!
What the hell happened?
Where is Kagame?
He was here
We were too late.
We had them.
So what do we do?
We let them add
to their numbers.
By all accounts you avoided
a public bloodbath.
That's something.
Keira?
Excuse me.
What is it, Alec?
I checked the surveillance footage
at the Temple, like you asked.
There's no images of you and Kagame
having your little tete a tete.
Thank you.
I also thought you should
know.
Melissa Dobek just booked herself
on a flight to Costa Rica.
That case is over, Alec.
Professor Ames'
*** was solved
with the arrest of
Shane Mathers.
We don't have the evidence
to charge her.
Yeah, until now.
Would it interest you to know
that there was a second backup
of Ames' research after all?
Mathers just thought he had
the only one.
Guess who has the other?
Final boarding call
to Costa Rica.
Dr.
Dobek.
Off on a get-away so to speak.
Long-standing travel plans.
Well, I'm afraid they're going
to have to change.
I don't understand.
Your sometime-boyfriend
Shane Mathers?
He's been arrested in the
conspiracy to kill Martin Ames.
He admitted rigging Calista
to backfire.
Whatever Shane may
have done,
I had nothing to do with it.
That's exactly what he said.
Until he found out
that you were
how shall I put this?
Otherwise engaged?
If he misconstrued my rants
about how dangerous
Ames' experiments were,
I can't help that.
So you deny any involvement
in the conspiracy?
Absolutely.
You just slept with
your rival's assistant
because he was
devastatingly attractive.
Here is that warrant
you requested.
Just tell me,
did you want Ames dead
because he was selling
it to the military,
or because you wanted
the research for yourself?
It's all there.
Please do not turn that data
over to the military.
You know what they'll
do with it.
It won't be about
renewable energy.
Melissa!
I'm so sorry that I'm late.
There was a stall on the bridge
and my phone is dead.
Who's this?
Drew, my fiancee.
Melissa Dobek
and Drew Laroche
report to Gate 34 for
immediate boarding.
Doors are closing
So you'll be
Melissa Laroche?
Sweetheart, this isn't going
to be easy to explain
Can we have a moment?
Wait
You're going to be
needing this.
Thank you.
6
5
4
3
That's crazy.
Security Grid's up.
How did you do that?
Promotion, remember?
Sadtech's latest rollout in
partnership with Laroche Energy.
Thousands of redundant mini fusion
reactors linked in a network.
No more centralized
reactors means
no more easy targets
for the terrorists.
They will just find other
things to target.
Other parts of
the infrastructure.
No, they're scrambling.
A bunch of revolutionary
malcontents
who think an insurgency
will change everything.
They're on the run
If you really want to do
something about them,
you should join the CPS.
They're recruiting.
With your military service
you'd be a lock for Protector.
You know I've always
wanted to.
I'm ready, whenever you are.
I know.
But let's be honest,
it's gonna take more
than a few blackouts
to tear me away from
my most important job.
The fact that you were slightly
further from the device
when it went off
may have accounted for your
different arrival time.
Makes you wonder who else
might be coming through?
Or who already has.
It doesn't matter.
What matters is that
we've all been given
the most precious gift
life offers.
A second chance.
Who has been in charge
in my absence?
I have.
You've lost soldiers.
We've become more vigilant.
We have to be.
There's a war coming.
How can you be so sure?
Because we're going
to start it.
No, no, no, no!! It's okay
- It's me Alec.
- Alec?
The guy in your head.
Did you really think breaking
into my apartment
was the best way to introduce
yourself?
I'm sorry.
Just I've got tired of waiting.
I found your suit.
So, you were going
through my things?
It's way ahead of anything
I've imagined.
It's even better
when it works.
I was going through
to my dad's notes
maybe a way to trigger
the self-repair mechanism.
I told you I didn't want
you to get involved.
I guess I'm like you.
A little stubborn.
How long will you need it for?
It's not like dry cleaning
You have dry cleaning
in the future?
Water's at a premium.
So, all cleaning is
dry cleaning.
Pulse vibration.
Eight seconds.
Thirty credits.
At least it won't take longer.
I noticed today, you turned off
your HUD a couple of times.
I don't get it.
I was curious.
Doesn't make it
your job harder?
Your tech can tell
you so much more.
Alec, I have to confront
the possibility
that if my suit can't
be repaired,
I have to do my job
without it.
I thought maybe you were trusting
your gut instead of your tech.
Like Carlos.
I was.
Felt good.
Why did you let that
woman go?
I had no choice.
But you knew Ames' assistant
wasn't acting alone.
That's not the point.
Then what is the point?
Every student in the union
learns about Melissa Laroche
in school.
She solved the global
energy crisis
with her development
of clean fusion.
She is going to do great
things with Ames research.
Important things.
So important she gets away
with ***?
I'm not happy with it,
but if I make
the wrong decision,
millions could be affected.
So, if these scientists
are playing God,
in a way, so are you
It's messed up.
What?
They're gonna use me to get to
you.
Get to me how?
So you gonna tell me why I've
been chased and shot at?
That's complicated.
What's going on?
They're targeting my family.